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The Hales Best Jumbo Melon is a local market and home grown favorite. This cantaloupe was developed by a Japanese market gardener in California and became widely popular because it combined excellent flavor with earliness. This beautiful oval melon has a deep green skin and golden netting with a very appealing salmon colored flesh. Hales Best Jumbo is an aromatic melon that is truly a sweet treat!
The deep fine grained green flesh of the Rocky Ford Green Flesh has a crisp, fresh taste. This small melon is 5.5x5" diameter, weighing 2-3 lbs. Rocky Ford Green Flesh's skin has a heavy net that is slightly ribbed. Overall, this cantaloup is very rust resistant, prolific, and good for home gardens and local markets. This melon is also good shipper.
The Hearts of Gold actually has a heart of deep-orange, "golden" flesh that is thick and sweet! This variety produces high quality melons that are sweet, juicy and fragrant. The Hearts of Gold's rinds are thin, heavily netted and medium ribbed. This prolific producer's round, medium-sized, 2-3 lb. fruits are a popular commercial cantaloupe in the Midwest.
A full-season, Galia type, melon that has widely adapted growing conditions. Produces high yields of netted 3-4 lb melons with extra-sweet eating quality. Avg. 12,600 seeds/lb. Packet: 30 seeds.
Emerald Green Gem is truly an emerald green gem! This early, green skinned melon has a sweet yellow-orange flesh that has a sweet and somewhat spicy flavor! This variety can grow up to 3 pounds.
The Tuscany Melon is a cantaloupe that has beauty and taste! This melon's flesh is one of the most flavorful muskmelons available. Originating in Italy, the deeply ribbed 3-5 lb. Tuscany has a small seed cavity and fine rind. This variety is very high in vitamin C and vitamin A, making it very nutritious! Tuscany is also a great storing cantaloupe that will keep up to 2 weeks if refrigerated.
The Banana Melon gets its name for being a banana-shaped fruit with smooth yellow skin and even a mouth-watering banana smell! This melon variety has a sweet, spicy salmon flesh that is delicious. This heirloom is an all time favorite for being very sweet and perfect for specialty markets.
Passport is a high quality Galia type melon that is early to mature. Produces large melons that reach 5 to 7lbs at maturity. These fruits have high sugar levels and delicious flavor. The fruit slips when ripe and the rind turns from green to yellow.
The Golden Beauty Casaba Melon has a creamy white aromatic spicy flesh! This heirloom melon, also known as the "Casaba Fruit," has a rind that matures gold. Golden Beauty Casaba is an 8 lb. variety that is very heat tolerant.
A Galia type melon with great resistance to powdery mildew resistance. Produces an abundance of 5-6lb. melons on vigorous vines. Thick, aromatic, sweet green flesh of excellent eating quality. Small seed pocket. Harvest at full slip, when the skin of the fruit is yellow.
One of the earliest Eastern Shipper varieties. Be the first to harvest melons for home eating or markets. Mature to 4-5lbs and have excellent, juicy flavor. Intermediate resistance to Fusarium wilt races 0–2 and powdery mildew.
Olympic Express is an early maturity melon that is good for mid season growing. This variety has great taste, excellent firmness and very good interior color.
Planters Jumbo is a great tasting cantaloupe that has a firm rind, smooth heavy netting, and thick deep orange flesh. This melon is 7x6" diameter, 4-4.5 lb. and is Powdery and Downy Mildew resistant. Planters Jumbo grows on a vigorous vine does well in drought or high rainfall. This melon is perfect for both home or local market growing.
Edisto 47 is a large melon with a wonderfully sweet flavor! This variety is a popular salmon-fleshed melon that is mildly sweet and produces strong yields. Edisto 47 has a high sugar content and is a great disease resistant variety.
This Eastern-type melon stands out for its extended post-harvest storage compared to other varieties in its class, without sacrificing the rich flavor and smooth texture growers and consumers expect. Fruits average 5–7 pounds and develop excellent sweetness, reaching about 13% Brix. At maturity, melons show full color change and slip cleanly from the vine, signaling peak harvest readiness. The variety also offers dependable field performance with intermediate resistance to Fusarium wilt (races 0, 1, and 2) and powdery mildew (races 1 and 2), making it a reliable choice for quality and shelf life.
The Pike melon is a very sweet melon variety that was bred in the 1930s. The sweet fragrant fruit is heavily netted on the outside with a juicy orange flesh. These melons can weigh 3-6 pounds depending on growing conditions.
The Honeydew Orange Flesh is a delicious muskmelon with smooth skin and a juicy flesh! The smooth outside skin is a creamy light green. This great quality honeydew's flesh turns pale yellow with orange hues when it is ready to harvest. Honeydew Orange Flesh produces high yielding 5 lb. fruits that are great for transporting to markets.
The Juane Canary Melon is an old heirloom football shaped melon with a canary yellow rind and a creamy, white to green flesh. This 4-5 pound melon has a delicious sugar sweet taste that is perfect for summer picnics! This variety will keep well in full sun.
